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jf THE CHAIN GONE, 1 Dr. Talmage Clearly Disproves the |?? "Missing Link" Theory. EVOLUTIONISTS PORTRAYED. At Every Stage of Human Life ll|;- There Is Direct Evidence of Divine Will. Unbridgeable Gulf 3etween Man fe * and Beast. Dr. Ttdmage in this discourse ad^.. ares a Christian evolution in contradiction to an infidel evolution aid declares .-nit the only raux^rti'jr iuiinyviu^ iu mc nv/?;.\i j.-? Christianity; tex-, Koma;is i, 'it, 2-i, "Tro fessing themselves to he wi^e. ibey bec-imr fools and cbaiigtrtl the gl< r of ihe ulc rruplible G d into an imige rmtfe like to coirujitible tnan, and to birds and four footed bea>ts aiid creepiug things."' This is a full length j ortra t of an evolutionist who substitutee the brtt'kl origin for the divine origin. * 1 showed \*.u last week & that evolution was coi:traiicu?<> the Bible by science, bv o^strvatjou au?? common sense; that the Bibie accouut ?}' ihe er<;atioo of man and of brute and ot t e world, and the evolutionist's account co!lic?ru with each ajKa* ksq /*arUJn!t? u?. fwn Pvuvpv^ tMina on. ",MW .?j - - --r -- t>ing in opposite directions at oO miies the hour, their locomotives meeting on ihs same track. I showed that a.l the evolution scientists. without any exception, were pronouueed infidel*: <h*i evolution wi? a tea thenfsro iho\isaml? uf years old; that such n,en as Agssjh'.aud Hugh Miller aud Farraday and Dawt<??n;3.ad Dana h:-^! for that doctrine of evolution unlimited contempt I showed you that their favorite theory of the 'survival of the fittest" was an absurdity ' and an untruth, and that natural evolution ? was always downward and never upward, and that there had never been any improvement for man or beast or world except through the dircct or indirect infiuen.ee of our glorious Christianity. And in the closing part of that sermon I told you I was not a pesssirsist, but an optimist, that instead of it being 11 o'clock at night it is half past 5 m the morning. Now, i go on to tell you, it seems to me that evolutionists are trying to impress the great masses of the people with the idea t^ai there is an ancekral line leading the ( serpent and on np through the quadruped and on up through the gorilla to man. They admit that thjre is a "missing link" as they call it, but there is not a missing link?it is a whole- chain gone. Between the physical construction of the highest, animal and the Ipajrgic&i uuuovrutjiiuu ui mc IUVIC^I iuaxx there is a chasm as wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolutionists tell us that somewhere in central Africa or in Borneo there is a creature half way between the brute and the man, at d that that creature is the highest step in the animal ascent and the lowest step in the human creation. But what are the facts? The brain of the largest gorilla that was ever found is 30 cubic inches, while the brain of the most ignorant man that was ever found is 70. Vast difference between 30 and 70. It needs a bridge of 40 arches to span that gulf. Besides that there is a difference between r the gorilla and the man?a difference of blood globule, a difference of nerve, a difference of muscle, a difference of bone, a *- difference of sinew. x The horse is more like man in intelligence, the bird is more like him in musical capacity, the mastiff is more like him in affection. That eulogized beast . oi which we nes." w,> muca, represeutcu yu i the walls of cities thousands of years ago, is just as complete as it is now, showing that there has not been a particle of change. Besides that, if a pair of apes had a man for descendant, why would not all the apes lave the same kind of descendants? Can it be that that one favored pair only was honV'\ ' ' ored with human progeny? Besides that, evolution says that as one species rises to anotiter species the old type dies off. Then r how is it that there are whole kingdoms of j?. chimpanzee and gorilla and baboon? Er'~ v_ The evolutioms* s have come together ana have tried to explain a bird's wit>g* Their theory has always been that a faculty of an animal while being developed must always be useful and always beneficial, but the wing of a bird,' in the thousands of years it was gfe:. being developed, so far from being any help must have been a hindrance until it could "be brought into practical use away on down , ia. the ages. Must there not have been an iutelligent will somewhere that formed that wonderful flying instrument, so that a bird 600 times heavier than the air can mount it and put gravitation under elaw and beak? That wonderful mechanical instrument the iq wing, with between 20 and 30 different apparati curiously constructed, does it not imdIv a divine intelligence? Does it not imply Ki : ' - a direct act of some outside being? All the evolutionists in the world cannot explain a bird's wing or an insect's wing. So they are confounded by the rattle of the rattlesnake Ages before that reptile had any enemies this warning weapon wa3 created. Why was it created? When the reptile, far back in the ages, had no enemies, why this warning weapon? There mu3t have been a divine'intelligence foreseeing and knowing t&at in ages to come that reptile would have enemies, and then this warning weapon would be brought into use. Tou see evolution at every step is a \ contradiction or a monstrosity. At every % \ stage of animal life as well as a', every stage \ of human life there is evidence of direct ac" tion cf divine will Besides that, it is very evident from another fact that we are an entirely different creation and that there is no kinship. The animal in a few hours or months comos to fall strength and can take cire of itself The human race for the first one, two, three five, ten years is in complete helplessness. ? , The chick just come out of its shell begins to pick up its own food. The dog, the wolf, the lion, soon earn thuir own livelihood and act for their own defense. The "human race does not come to development until 20 or 30 years of age, and by that time the animals that were born the tame year the man was born; the vast majority of them, have died of old age. This shows there is no kinship, there is no similarity. If we had been born of the bea3t, we would have had the beast's strength at the start or it wonld have had oar weakness.- JNot only airrerent, out opposite. Darwin admitted that the dovecot pigoon has not changed in thousands ot years. It is demon >uated over and over again that he lizarJ on tne lowest formation of rocks was just as complete as the iizard now. It is shown that the ganoid, the first fish, was just as complete as the sturgeon, anothei name for the same fish now. Darwin's enlire system i* a gues3, and Huxley and John Stuart Mill and Tyndall-and especial ly Professor Haeckel come to help him in the euess, and guess about the brute, and w ? guess about man, and gaess about worlds. Pbut as to having one soiid foot of ground to stand on they never have had it and never will have it. I, put in opposition to these evolutionist theories the inward consciousness that we have no consanguinity with the dog that fawns at our feet, or the spider that crawls on the wall, or thi fish that Hops in the frying pan, or the crow that . swoops on the field carcass, or the swine that wallows in the mire. E rerybody sees the outrage it would be to put asiae the Bible record that Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat-Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah, for the record that the microscopic animal^ ~ Karros tQ.-innlp and the tadnole be gat the polliwog, and the polliwog begat the serpent, and the serpent begat the qnadru\ ped, and the quadruped begat the baboon, X. and the baboon begat man. X The evolutionists tell us that the apes were originally fond of climbing the trees, ijtrt- x after awhile they lost their prehensile powe>and therefore could not climb with any faciHty, and hence they surrendered monkeydoiQ and set up in bu^utss as men. L Failures as apes, successes as men. Accoruing to the evolutionists, a man is a bankrupt monkey. 1 p. iy the person who in every nerve and muscle '<nd bone and mental faculty and spiritual experience dees not jealize that he is h'gher in origip and has had a grander ancestry than the oeasts which perish. However degraded men and vom en m;-y be, and though, they may have foundered on xhe^ocTs' of cri-sie, and sin. and ouj^ udder as we pass^tjiem, eomeimnj wuniii u?, .. rMB)i, JJJMJ1 , T'lWTi that tel s n: they belong to the same gre&f \ brotherhood and sisterhood of our race, j and our sympathies are aroused in fe^ard [ tc theni. Bat gazing Uuon the 8*?fte<t gaselle, or upon the tropic il bird i f most flamt>c;.aat win*, or upuu she curv; ..f grandest coursor s n*cl *e fe;l there is no couM&guinity. It ... ?-t tbat we are strong*r than thej. :or the lion wi:h one Stroke of his paw could put us into the dust. It is not 'hat we have better tyesight, for the eagle caa <Je?cry a tcol'* a mile away. It :r. not .ha.t we are fleeter of foor., for a roefcuck. lu a flasti la cut. ox j sight, just seeming to touch the earth as j he goes Many, of the aniru:.! cieuiou surpassing us in fleetness of foot ami in kt eoness of nostril and in strength of lirab, but noiwiths'aTidioe ?'l that there is something within us tha* lei's us w? an- of celestial pedigree. Not of fie aioiiusk, not of the rizipod, ootof't. c rr.mv ?>ria, but of the liviog and ?nmipvtsj.t G-d. Linoft e skies GeiieHlo^y yt iieaven I tell you plain'y that, if your father was a uiu!>krai Htui your mother an opos sum aQiiyour uuut a katg.i'oo and j the t>a?3s aid rbn i=un>;.i:i4 turtles were J >our iiiusinous c>rt."le<;<w)r?, my father was G .d. I know it I feel it t thrills through me w-th an eropha is and an ecstasy which *11 your arguments drawn from anthropology scd bioioiy and zoo'ogy and merol- ^y and pile~utologv a d all the other olozi-g can ce er shake Evo'utifii i- ose great mystery Ir. hatches out 50 myt>teri'-s, an"! t&e 50 hatcti out I iO0, ??'l the 1 000 batch out 1,000.000. Why, my brother, cot admit the oue great mystery of God and have that s ttle a'l the other mysteries? ! can more eas-ily appreciate the fact that God, by one stroke of h>s omnipotence, cou'd make man than -I could realize how out of 5,000,000 ages he c-iuid huve evolved one put'iog on a little hi're and a little there. It would have been just as great a miracle for Go' to have turned au oraDg otitr ng into a man as to make a man out and out, the one job just as big as the oth'-r It seems to me we had ' ettor let God have a little place in our world somewhere It seems to me if we cannot have hioi make all creatures wevhad better hav? him make two or three. There ought to be sou.e place where he could stay without interfering with the evolutionists. says Darwin, and so for years he is trying to raise tantailed. pigeons and to turn th?se. fantail p'geon9 into some ether kind of pigeons or to h+ve them go into something That is not a pigeon ?turning them into quail or barnyard fowl or brown thrasher. But pigeon it is. And others have tried with the ox and the dog and the horse, but they staid in their species If they attempt to cross over, it is a hybrid, and a hybrid is always sterile and goes into extinction. There has been only one successful attempt to pass over from speechless animal to the articulation of man. and that was the attempt which Bala un witnessed in the beast that he rode, but aa angel of tie Lord with drawn sword soon stopped that long eared e folutionist. But says sorre one, "If we cannot have God make a man, let us have him make a ho^se." "Oh, no!" says Huxley in his great lectures in New Tort years ago. No, he does not want any God around tne Dretnises. God did not make the horse. The horse came of the pliohippus, and the pliohippup came from the protohippus, and the protohippus came fiom the miohippus, and the miohippu3 came from the meshohippus, and the mesh >Lippu3 came from the orohippus, and so away back, all ihe living creatures, we trace it in a line until we get to the moneron. and no evidence of divine intermeddling with the creation until you get to the moneron, and that, lluxley says, is of so low a form of life that the probability is it just made itself or was the result of spontaneous generation. What a narrow escipe from theneceFsity of having a God! As near as I can tell, these evolutionist* seem to think that God at the start had not made up his mind as to exactly what he would make, and having made up his mind partially he has been changing it all through the ages. I believe that God made the world as he wanted to have it and tnat tne Happiness of all the species will depend upon their staying in the species where they were created. Bat, my friends, evolution is not only in fidel and atheistic and absurd. It is brutalizing in its tendencies. If there is anything in the world that will makes a man bestial in his habit3, it is the idea that he was descended from the beast. Why, accord bg to the idea of these evolutionists, we are a only superior kind of cattle, a sort of Aide- ney among other heards. To be sure, we browse on better pas'ure, and we ' have better stall and better accommodations, V.,* awItt Vi ^Afxrna omrm rr t ? I UUC UICH YVC CliO VUljr UVUIU iunuo v??v great flocks of sheep. Born of a beast, to die like a beast, to die like a beast, for the evolationists have no idea of a future world They 8 y the mind is only a superior part of the body. Tbey say our thoughts are only molecular forma'ion. They tay when the body dies the whole nature dies. The slab of thetepulcher is not a milestone on the journey upward, but a wall shutting us into eterdal nothingness. We all die alike?the cow, the horse, the sheep, tae man, the reptile. Annihilation is the haaven of the evolutionist. From such as'enchful and damnable doctrine turn away. Compare that idea of year origin an idea filled with the chatter of apes and the hiss -f serpents and the croak of frogs?to an idea in one or two stanzis which I quote from an old book of more than Demosthenic or Homeric or Dantesque power; '-What is nan that thou art mindfulofhim? And the son of man, that thou yisiteat him? Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and hast crowned him wi:h glory and honor. Thou madest him to have domin-on over the works of thy hand. Thou hast put all things under his feet AH sheep and oxen?yea, ana tne beasts of the field the fowl of the air, and the fish of the 3ea. and whatsoever pa3seth through the p iths of the reas. 0 Lord, our Lord how excellent is thy name in all the earth." How do ycu like that origin? The lion the monarch of the field, the eagle the monarch of the air, behemoth the monarch of the deep, but man monarch or* all! Ah, my friends,![ have to say to you liiai I am not so anxicns to know what was my origin as * 1-? -:mi t ^ 10 SHOW wxiafc Wlil OC liij utouujt. i uu UUI/ care so much where I came from a3 where I am going to. I am not so interested in who was my ancestry 10,000,000 years ago as 1 am to know where I will be 10,000,000 years from now. I am not so much interested in the preface to my cradle as I am interested in the app -ndix to my grave I do not cire so rich about protoplasm as I do about eternasm. The "was" is overwhelmed with the i "to be.'* And here comes m ihe evolution ; I believe in?not natural evolution, but , gracious and divine aud heavenly evolution ( ?evolution out of 3in into holiness, out of grief into gladness, out of mortality into im- ' mortality, out of earth into heaven. That I 1 - ? 1 ? ^ T IAira in ( ( is me evutuuuu a hchciv Monarch" on earth of all lower orders of 1 creation and then lifted to be hierarchs in j heaven. Masterpiece of God's wisdom and J goodness, our humanity; masterpiete of di- ( vine grace, our enthronement I put one foot on Darwin's "Origin of the Species," , and I put the other fooi on Spencers "Bi- J ologj," and then, holding in one hand the ! hnnb nf Moses. I see our Genesis, and. hold ing in the other hand the book of Revelation [ see our celestial arrival. For all wars I prescribe the Bethlehem chant of the angels, for all sepulchers I prescribe the archangel's trumpet, for all the earthly griefs I prescribe the hand that wipes away all tears from all eyes. Not an evolutioa from be*?' to man, but an evolution from contestant to conqueror, and from the struggle with wild beasts in the arena of the amphitheater to a soft, high, blissful seat in the King's gallerii-s. Gets His Heward. . . Several attempts have recently been made to poison the family of Capt. John E. Logawood of Athens. La., one of the most prominent men in the State. At 2:30o'cleck this morning Dick Dabney, colored, one of the persons who was suspected was shot and killed by Charles Logawood. son of Capt. Logawood, who detected Dabney and another negro in the act of trying to kill Capt. Logawood while the latter was asleep. The negroes entered the house and were discovered by young Logawood, irVin I'li-isod tlir>m into tin? vard and [ fired. "Pabncy fell dead, but the other ^ ncgrt^ cscapc. m \w l/i _>* i mm >ii ttJSS, iHiLJib KLU Si jtAriiAii*. Clash of the "War Secretary and Com.mander-ic-Ciiief. When Gen. Miles returns to Washington he will he asked for an explanation of recent interviews appearing with him, and the publication of certain dispatches which the war department has not made public. Whether the investigation v.ill take the course of a mili tary Uourt ot inquiry or a private interview between the President, the Secretary of War and Gen. Miles remains yet to be seen. Until the arrival of Gen. Miles the war department will not discuss the matter. Secretary Alger says that the department will not enter into any controversy with its subordinates, and he does not propose to discuss matters affecting Gen Miles during his absence. The department is of opinion that Gen. Miles made public the dispatches of the Secretary. Gen. Shafter and himself. Such action it regards as a broach of military regulations, but no military Court can secure proof that Gen. Miles made public the dispatches if he and the person to whom they were furnished refuse to give the information, as several military trials have made it settled law that no military Court can compel a civilian to testify if he doe?, not want to. Gen. Miles also may be cc-Iicd to account lor tne interviews witn hi m. as, unless disavowed, they would place him in the attitude of criticing his superior officers, and subject him to military discipline. The publication of the dispatches taken together with previous interviews ir the Kansas City Star, were the topic oi conversation among officers of the war department, and alreidy there is a i disposition by some to take sides in the n atter, while others deplore the conditions as tending to lower the tone of the army and to do irreparable injury to the service. It is expected the controversy will extend to both houses of Congress, and it is feared will have an adverse effect upon the legislation which will be asked to better the army. It is generally understood that the regular force will have to be largely in"? 1 ' i *1 xl. - J ] creased, at least until uie conquereu islands are disposed of, and it is feared that legislation in this directon will be iiampered by the inevitable controversy between the Secretary of "War and the general commanding the army. The Game Laws. Inquiries are frequently made as to the requirements of the South Carolina game laws, so that the following terse summary of the laws just gotten out by the Union Metallic Co. will be of gen eiui interest tu spuiLsiueii uuu umcia who do not care to wade through the numerous acts on the subject: Deer?It is illegal to kill or hunt deer, or chase them with dogs, between February 1, and September 1, except in the counties of Clarendon, Berkeley, Georgetown, Marion, Colleton, Darlington, Williamsburg, Horry, Marlboro and Kershaw, in whieh counties it is 1 (? 11.1 "n.T f 2 K now xawiui oetween reDruary i anu ^iu- i gust 1. Other Birds (open season)?It is illegal, between April 1' and November 1, to hunt or kill any wild turkey, partridge, quail, woodcock or pheasant, or, between March 1 and August 1, any dove, or to kill at any time during the year any of the birds' named, by fire light or flash light. Non-resident licence?Non-residents may purchase a licence for shooting game of any kind. Cost $25. This does not apply to persons hunting or killing game on their own land. Lost in the Mountains. Thursday morning, Alice, daughter of George and Caroline Peck, who live in the northeastern end of Burns valley. Pennsylvania, near the mountains, wandered from home, and being only 3 years old, was soon lost in that extensive chain of mountains extending from Concord to Cumberland county. An alarm was immediately given and the people of Burns valley and vicinity turned out to search fer the lost one. The search was continued night and day until Sunday morning without finding any trace of her. On that morning about 150 men gathered at the A ft . 1 . T1 1? _ toot or tne mountains, rormmg a uDe they marched through the woods searching among the reeks and brush. About five miles from where they entered the mountains she was discovered standing upon a largo rock. Her clothing had been torn and tattered by the brush and rocks, and but for a few slight scratches, she was uninjured. A few berries had been her diet for over three days.?Philadelphia Times. The Color Line Again. Soldiers passing through Altoona tell a strange story regarding the death of Quartermaster George B. Franks, of Company G, 12th New York regiment. The regiment is encamped at Chattanooga. Because of the death of three hospital patients after drinking mill- Viv noirr/ios livinc in t.Vif* UUJLXXV WJ MVQ* vvw ?? t ? ? ??w neighborhood, the quartermaster of of Company Gr. would not allow the negroes to sell anything to his company. Friday night a gang of negroes caught Franks outside of the camp grounds, and, after beating him nearly to death, threw him under a passing railroad train. Since then the guards have been ordered to shoot any negroe who attempts to pass the camp lines. Rewards in the Navy. Captain Jfhilip, ot tnc xexas, who distinguished himself so nobly at Santiago, has entered, a protest against his own promotion over the heads of officers who ranked him before and who he declared would surely have conducted themsel .es with gallantry equal to that of the participants in our recent in our recent naval battles if they had been *iven an opportunity. Captain Philip has not only given proof of a high sense >f justice and remarkable unselfishness, but he has called attention to the unfairness of our present system of bestowing rewards for distinguished ser vice in tiic uavy. Outrage By Ohio Soldiers. A Bruns wick, Ga. special to the Morning News says: Section Foreman Rartman, his wife and his sister, 3Iiss iVrie liedley, of Everett, were insulted by a party of soldiers near their home last night. They were watching the 1st Ohio regiment go through to lluntsville. when some of the privates made coarse remarks to them. They retreated to their home, and the soldiers followed. Two of the soldiers fired at Hart-man. ilartman and the women folks returned the fire, wounding two soldiers, one seriously. Tore Down a Church. A large mob led by women demolished the Independent Polish Catholic church of St. Adelbcrt. X. Y., Friday. The frame walls of the small structure were torn down and hurled into the street. Twenty-three rioters were ar .-jsted and further trouble is anticipated. The a&ault was owing to dissatisfaction with the pastor. Dean Pitas. His removal was requested. Only a few upright timbers are left standing. Mil. JA. CTTTf?>T<i I I. .Ml I II I BIG EATERS OF THE OLD DAYS I Seven and a Half Pounds of Beef Part of One Mac's Dinner. The late Abraham i lay ward refers in j his reminiscences to Thomas Walker, I who died early in the present century, and was editor of a singular gastronomic journal, called the Original. Among other things he speaks of 3Ir. Walker's np.rsistent advocaev of' a verv fnw wr fectly served dishes at a single meal. Among others he mentions a Christmas dinner given by Mr. Walker, in which three persons including the host, participated. It was composed of crimped cod. woodcock aud a plum pudding, just as much of each as was i wanted, with champagne in abundance as the role wine. This dinner excited considerable comment at the time, for it was given at a period when it was considered good form to load the table j with an endless quantity of viands and drink in profusion, manv varieties of i wines. This dinner of Walker's leads Mr. Hayward to comment upon the formidable appetites with which people were endowed in the early years of the century. One of Walker's meals was merely a nibble to the robust eaters of this period. The lord lieutenant of a certain western county of England ate a covey of partridges in their season every morning for breakfast. Another man of title consumed daily an equal number of these birds as a mere whet, and his appetite was only sharpened by the performance. This feeder, before he had finished with a round of beef, had eaten seven ana a nait pounds oi solid meat and a proportionate quantity of vegetables. 3Ir. Hayward tells of a distinguished literary and political character who was in the habit of ferquenting the notorious Crockford's. His appetite and capacity were so prodigious that the proprietor of the establishment determined to offer him a substantial fee to refrain from eating there. He was about to do so, when he was informed that this glutton had been bought off by the proprietors of all of the other exclusive feeding and gambling resorts of London. Troubles of a Trust. The Atlanta Journal says ''the Sugar Trust has a rough sea ahead of' it. If there ever was a trust which was thoroughly disreputable, and which distinguished itself by its defiance of decency as well as'of public opinion, this is the one. ihe probability that the sugar trust has seen its best days will, therefore, be viewed with general satisfaction by the public, which it has fleeced for so long a time. The dangers that beset this gigantic corporation are manifold. It has recently found a powerful rival in the Arbuckle Company, which has built and'opened a great sugar refinery in Brooklyn. Another refinery on Long Island, taj?ey operated by the Doscher Company, will be ready for business in October. Still another refinery that will make war on the sugar trust has just been completed in San Francisco. The trust now pro duces about thrce-rourths of all the refined sugar used in this country, but itt is estimated that its powerful competitors, who are now in the field will take away nearly half of its business. The rapidly growing beet sugar industry is "also giving the sugar trust trouble. It is necessary, in order to make the production of beet sugar profitable, to refine sugar where the beets are grown, and thus make a large saving in freight. The business of refining sugar near the Louisiana plantationsis also increasing every year for a similar reason. But the RArirms rlfl/n^er wbinh nnw beset. the sugar trust is one winch was broght on by its own greed and the exercise of influence with Congress. The .lobbyists of the trust and its tools in Congress succeeded in putting a differential duty of one cent a pound on refined sugar into the Dingley tariff Act. This gave the trust an enormous bounty, but was too good a thing. It is this big differential which has lured other powerful companies into the sugar refining business. If the sugar trust had not grabbed for so much in the way of legislative favors it would now be in a much stronger position than it holds. And now the trust is brought face to face with another perplexing problem. The sugar of Porto liico and Hawaii will be admitted free of duty. The sugar product of Cuba, will also come in free when Cuba becomes ours, as it probably will before long. There will certainly be refineries established in those islands to put the sugar into shape for market before it is shipped to this country. The trust will have a gay time keeping down this competition. This concern now has common and preferred stock to the amount of $75,000,-' AAA x"L I ~ 1a. ' i. J uvv. un mis it is eAputaeu uu pay handsome dividends. It has been forced by its policy of crushing competition to pay for competing refineries prices immensely above their real value, it is said that all the plants of the trust could be duplicated for one-fifth of the amount for which they are stocked. This gives the rival refineries recently built an enormous advantage. To buy up these refineries would put a stop to the trust's dividends and run its stock down to something like real value. To face and fight the great competition now before it will be to lose one-half of its monopoly. The situation is badly mixed for the trust, but all peraons who do not hold its watered stock may contemplate the situation with equanimity and hope for the collapse of a combination which has forfeited all claims to sympathy or respect. To Be Mustered Out. The following troops were ordered to be mustered out of service Friday: First South Carolina. Jacksonville to Columbia, S. C., First Pennsylvania, Second and Third Pennsylvania, Fourth Wisconsin, Seventy-first New York. First New Jersey, Thirty-second Mich" T!* ^ /"VI ' 1 igan. two squaarons jrirst umo cavairy, Eighth Ohio, One Hundred and Fiftyeighth Indiana, Third Ohio, Second North Carolina, Simon's Island, Ga.7 to Raleigh; First and Second Alabama, Third U. S. volunteer cavalry. Second Massachusetts. Mail Bobber Punished. The findings of the general Court. i av _ o _j n martial in tiic ease oi noyu vv. vjray, Company F. 65th Xcw York regiment, charged with robbing the mails at Camp Alger, were published Wednesday morning. ile has been dishonorably discharged from the service of the United States, forfeiting all pay and allowances and sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth. Kansas^ Rolled Into the River. While asleep on a wharf in one of the suburbs of Jacksonville. Fla., on Friday evening, Private William 31cHugli, of Co. G. Second Alabama regiment, rolled off into the water and was drowned before assistance could be I given to him. The body was recovered | and will be sent to Atlanta, Ga.. for interment. I . | FIPTY DEAD IN C3TE DAY. I List of Deaths and Prostrations Prom Heat in New YorkI j Kifty dead :ui'I over one hundred I prostrations in one <Jay is the record of I the heat in old New York Saturday. I * 1.1 I .. A1 1 Tiie sun ocai rctenuessiy 011 uic sweltering city all day long. Night follow cd almost like day, and the deaths from the heat reported at intervals in the various hospital, police headquarter and coroner's office. A cold wave, accompanied by showers and thunder storms, is the prognostication for to morrow night, but until then no relief is expected. The highest point reached by the thermometer to-day was at 2 o'clock, when the mercury registered 5)2 degrees. The humidity averaged 85 per cent. Following is a list of the dead: Edward Ranter. 32 years old: Robert Eaton. 54-; John Sloan, 70; Jos. Xorneti, 44; Philip Patie, 15 days; Ellen Potter. 40 years; Kobert Malupski, 7 months: Margaret Lavery. 63 years: Winifred Whalen. 49; Robert Miles, 38; Samuel Goodwin, 4S; Lawrence Zenns, 40: Frederick C. Williams, 07; Lawrence Green, 30: Mary Cornell, 20; James' Modine, 10 months; Ernest Garbeith, 33 years; Minnie Mitchell. 39; Joseph Hudson, 03: Hugh McDevitt, 33; Ed ward Wall, 38; Jtiocco Montasano, 38; Edward Ivers, 40; Joseph Smith, 36; Eliza J. Goff, 70: Alfred Gardner. ?; Cornelius D. Klein, ?; Michael Alsick 33; Patrick Devive, 35; Charles Sehlman, 32; Charles Cohen, Patrick Defovan, 50; J. Mohl, 38, Daniel MaCarthy 26; Frederick Mosser, William Harlan. 54; John Young, 45; Yittoria Prolli, 26; Phiiomena Wandela. 25; John Brown. 60: David Keef, 32; Edward Seibcl, 45; George Meyer. 28; Charles Kegel, 41; Lizzie Weabel, 21, Louis Schomble, 4S; one unknown woman; three unknown men. In Brooklvn there were six deaths and fourteen prostrations. BLOWN TIP. The Government Steamboat John E. Meigs Destroyed by Explosion. The Government steamboat John E. Meigs was totally destroyed by an explosion at Fort St. Philip near New Orleans Saturday. She had on board Lieut. Jervey and a party engaged in romnrinc f.ViA f-nrr>r>dnpq lrnd irt t.hn ? ? ?r~ ? Mississippi River during the beginning of the war. Lieut. Jervey had a narrow escape. The killed were Capt. Starr, commander of the boat: Sergt. John Newman, of the engineers; Pat Carlos and Ralph Rogers. Those wounded were Fritz Koch and 1). B. Reddy. Major Quinn, of the engineer orpSj was advised that the Meigs had been blown up by a torpedo or. mine. T^e Government engineers had been Enable to recover the mines and torpe' docs from shore by means of the cables to which they had been attached, owing to the fact that the sand in the river had weighted them down -and caused the cables to part. On this account a crew was ordered down on the Meigs to grapple for the mines and Iriug them to the surface. The crew h^i almost completed the work when the accident occurred. The dispatch to Major Quinn *says that the Meigs sank out of sight in deep water near Fort St. Philip. Carlos and Newman, among those lost, -belonged to the United States engineer battalion that came here some time ago from "Willets Point, N. Y. Capt. Starf is from Vicksburg, but is a Northern man, and was with the fleet 14.UJ.1LIQ CbVldV/JX VU * Meigs was owned by Major Williard and had been used as a snag boat in Red Rver. She was 190 feet long. LOVES ONLY HIS PARAMOUR. Peculiar Answer of Atlanta Lawyer to a Divorce Suit. A suit for divorce, filed by Mrs. T. J. Leftwich of Atlanta against her hus band, who in .addition to being one of the best known lawers of Atlanta, is the son of Br. J. T. Leftwich, a Presbyterian preacher of wide reputation, has provoked a rejoinder today from the defendent which bristles with remarkable features. The defendant admits that he was unduly intimate with Maud Jordan, as his wife asserts, and declares openly that for years he has given her the affection and and attention which was due his wife, and that it is his intention to marry her as soon <10 from Ms nresp.nt matrimo- I nial bonds. He says that his marriage fifteen years ago was in every way unfortunate, and that when he met Maude Jordan he realized her as his soul's ideal. He treated her as a wife and ' has had two children, a boy of 5 years and a girl of 8 months, by her, He alleges that he recently called a council of his most intimate friends.told them the circumstances, and declared that she and he would prefer disgrace and imprisonment rather than undergo separation. He asserts that he dearly loves the Jordan woman and his two illegitimate children, and any sacrifice which he can make for their welfare will not be too great. t> r TTTL ^4. prepare iox n licm. Let the farmers, possessed of foresight, energy and business tact, con sider the value of the wheat crop. Heretofore there was little demand for surplus wheat except for seed. It was too convenient to buy store flour. For the last few years our merchants would hardly have known what to do with 500 bushels of wheat put on the market in one day. With several roller mills in the country and a large one nearly ready to grind in the city, wheat will demand cash almost as readily as cotton. The ambition of the farmer is ,o bring his cotton crop up to a 500 bale to the acre. The same land* pro perly prepared will make 20 to 30 bushels of wheat. It requires a man and horse two days to prepare the land ' Tt j .1 and put in one acre ot wheat, ic lases six times as much labor to plant, cultivate and gather a cotton crop as it does wheat. The wheat land will also produce a late corn and pea crop and with the addition of a little manure, the land will be improved. Let the farmers consider this question from a business stand point. With these mills going up. wheat will bring ready cash. Seven Men Drowned. It lias just been reported that Lieut. Morgan U. S. Engineer corps was drowned off Tybcc in the storm Wednesday with six regular soldiers. He went out in a yawl to rescue the sailors of an Italian bark. The yawl capsized and Morgan with his men were drowned. This is authentic. Morgan was a Georgian. Earthquake at Santiago. Two earthquake shocks were felt at Santiago Saturday afternooi. The first. which occurred at 2:15, was of unusual severity and shook every house in the city. The frightened people ran out into the streets. The second shock, which was lighter, occurred just an hour later. LOST IX A STORM. ftnie Hundred Spaniards on a Trans- j port Drowned. The liong Kong daily Press is an- I tiiority l'or the statement that !?(>(> Spaniards, including sixteen priests, lost their lives several weeks ago when the Spanishgnnboat Leyte was captured by a vessel belonging to Admiral Dewey's squadron. The Lcytc had been stationed in an adjoining island where j tne insurgenis were numerous ana aggressive. The latter were gaining ground rapidly, causing 0i)0 Spainards to board these sailing vessels in an endeavor to escape from the natives, who won Id massac re them. The gunboat Leytc undertook to tow these three transports to Manila bay, where the Spaniards aboard them were to surrender to Admiral Dewey if they did not succeed in landing somewhere and reaching Manila under cover of darkness. After the Leyte had towed them down Pampangas river and some distance along the coast, a heavy storm came un. making it necessarv for the gunboat to cut her tows loose and proceed to Manila for assistance. Before getting there she was captured by the Americans next day and an American vessel was dispatched to find the three transports, but failed to discover any trace of them. The natives on the adjoining coast say they saw nothing of any vessels. The conclusion was finally reached that the vessels foundered with all on board. The Chinese emperor has "issued an edict that European and American missionaries and their converts in his empire be fully protected. He says cuLdt in cilia an vuiucoi: uuiviai.? have heretofore been derelict. He is, sues this edict as a final warning and declares his determination that there shall be no more riots. Japanese papers announce that all export duties now imposed in Japan are to be gradually abolished with the object of increasing foreign trade. The Cotton Outlook. The outlook for cotton is not very encouraging. With middling cotton selling around 5 cents there is aot much left to the producer, after the freight and middlemen's charges are deducted. If' we take $22.50 as about the average value per bale on the farm, there 1*2 1 t 4-f 1 /-v rATnnnnrofmrt 4v\r? ftl film* I iO ? Ui J iibl/iu lV>iiiUUvJ.U>biVU 1VA capital or labor, under the most favorable conditions of yield and with the most economical management. As cotton is the basis of values throughout most of the South, this condition of things is bound to make itself felt in many ways. .Of course, any depression in the price of a staple commodity will work its own cure, in the long run,but the process is both painful and expensive. The main cause of the present low price is the general conviction thdt the world is face to face with another monster crop. Whether that conviction is based on facts or. not. the result is the same, for the time being. Unfortunately. the Southern farmer learned nothing from the bitter experience of last season, and the acreage is practicavwa tihiiia flla ttt/\y*!/3 tril] ^cinj tliC oaiut. ?r iiiit wnv nviiu ttxai undoubtedly, take a large crop of American cotton at the present level of price, it does not require a crop of 11,000,000 bales, and will only take it on a speculative basis. As a matter of fact, the size of the present crop is still a matter of uncertainty, as its backwardness would make it peculiarly susceptible to injury by an early frost. Yet the size of the crop is taken for granted, and affects the price, for the moment, precisely as if the result were certain. As things now stand, there is only one inflnence that could check the decline. The Southern farmer has got +a Vmll hie attti ^rcmmnrlit.v if it. i<5 tn hp bulled at alL Gems of Thought. Half our mistakes in life come from being in aliurry. Every human soul has something of the nature of G-od left in it. Try to learn the hard lesson of concentration without absorption. Assuredly a sore and subtle temptation of middle age is to nurse wrongs. The end of life is not personal happiness. It is the image and glory of God. ! If it is areproach not to have friends it may be even a greater not to have enemies. No man can do another's work for tf IAAAA1. JUL AW AO UVV UVUV K/J UUV *V?A himself, it'is not done at alJ. It is not greatness, bui littleness, that can easily dispense with human love and coldly prefers to suffer alone. A gentleman's first instinct is to put every one at his ease and especially to avoid giving unnecessary pain.?Bishop Thorold. t He Was Drunk. Joe Kinney of Company H, First Mississippi, m'ade an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Col. Govan of the _ ? ? x -A rt"Lr^i inrsi Mississippi regiment at ^muKamauga Saturday night. He entered Col. Govan's tent, saying lie had a present for him, with pistols drawn. The colonel made an effort to get his pistol, but Kenney had taken the colonel's pistol from his tent earlier in the evening. Col. G-ovan kept perfectly cool and told him to leave or he would kill him. Kinney backed out of the tent and started away and was captured by Privates Gibbs, Smythe, Slocum, Boyd and Turner of Company F, but not until he had fired several shots at his capturers. The colonel's rn'ctnl frtnnrl nri him when caDt ured. Kinney was drunk and is said to be addicted to the morphine habit. . He is an ex-convict. Don't. Don't judge a disinfectant by its smell. Don't seek to become a life member of a suicide club. Don't present a grass widow, with a bottle of new-mown hay perfume. Don't think you can get rid of your typewriter by marrying Her. Don't attempt to convert a person by reasoning instead of by good example. Don't blame tlie grocer for giving " you short weight if you give him a long wait. Don't drop your hook in the same hole with others if you would succeed as a fisherman. Don't think free will gives you the right to do whatever you like, regardless of the rights of others. Released Steamers. Two steamers flying the Spanish flag, sailed from New York Wednesday. They were former prizes, the Miguel Jovcr and Catalina. A few days ago the "Washington authorities decided that these steamers should not have been seized and ordered their release. The Jover and Catalina cleared for Spain via Habana and manned by their old crews, went to sea Wednesday morning. The Courtesy of Macias. Capt. Palma. of the Spanish civil guard, brought Gen. Brooke Saturday, under a flag of truce, a dispatch from /. . n -vr--:.- '?i. ? J:-..- *1,^ uapi. VJCI1. iiauias, uAiunuiug tu wie American general the use of his private residence at llio Piedras, near San Juan, during Gen. Brooke's stay here. ?? iiCTumirHii irrimrf ?ameaamamrnttmmmmt About Reducing Cotton Acreage. The Xews "and Courier under tlic heading "The Cotton G-rowersin Council" say* that the National Cotton Growers'.-.- association at Memphis recently ;??3oj?t???! a new policy to restrict thy production ol' cotton. lwslnction of acreage by agreement was discarded as imparacticable. The new policy is "diversification of crops,'" and this is to -be kept before the eyes of the farmers by the distribution of literature. To this end the formation of a society similar to the Grange and Alliance, free from polities, is recommended. This seems to be a wise direction given to the "Cotton Growers' association, if it can be cirried into practice. The efforts and experiences of years in this section show the folly of the effort to rcduce the acreage in cotton by agreement. It is a saying among farmers themselves, that farmers can't combine/' They will acknowledge that as a general rule, less cotton should be planted, but every individual man of them thinks that it is good for all the other fellows and not for him? this year. lie has moaey to raise to meet a debt in the fall. He can't sell liis corn, fodder and other produce without a sacrifice .and cotton is so low. he must plant largely to raise the money. tu:? 4.1, j.ui5 is cau vvay wicy uu&. duu v;uuaiuuiing the low price he' gets for everything he has to sell, tlie farmer has to plough a stumpy row. The cotton is such an easy crop to cultivate, it woos him away from tobacco which requires so much trouble and skill in the curing. 'There are a number of good farmers around us who know that tobacco is a far more profitable crop than cotton, that there is a cash demand for it as early as August, but "it is so troublesome." So after all the clement of ease in the cul tivation and gathering of the crop and the application of knowledge already acquired, are important considerations with many. By concert of action, the farmers and those interested with them, could make the plan proposed very useful. The question is, will it be done? Rainfall in the State. The past week was characteaized by steady, even, normal temperatures, ranging between a Maximum of 96 de grees on the 21st at Batesburg, and a minimum of 66 degrees on the 17 at Greenville. The State mean for the week was 79 degrees, which is also the normal. With the exception of limited areas in Newberry, Aiken, Florence, Dorchester and Chesterfield counties, where less than an inch of rain fell, the rainfall amounted to from 1 to 9 inches over the entire State, the latter excessive rainfall occurred in Pickens, county, and lowland crops in that, Greenville and Spartanburg counties, where from 2 to nearly 5 inches of rain fell, were in places severely injured or entirelly destroyed. Cloudy and showcry weather prevailed generally during the first of the week, but after Friday there was more sunshine and less frequent showers. The average rainfall for the State was 2.52 inches, and the normal for the same period is approximately 1.48 inches. Crops in the State. The condition of corn has changed but little and the crop is a fairly good one, but has been damaged by high water in the extreme north-western counties and by an excess of moisttire on stubble lands. The weather was unfavorable for saving fodder; much of that pulled during the week was damaged and some totally destroyed by rain. The cotton crop is fairly promising, but as yet uncertain, and deteriorated during the week. The continuous cloudy and rainy weather has caused an in crease 01 rust and sheading, botn 01 which are common over the entire State. Matured bolls are rotting to some ecx tent. Cotton is opening freely inplaces, but generally slowiiy, and pi pking has fairly begun in the easternn ortions of the State, and will soo be genera . Hilton s. Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plus ultra" of all such preparations in removing soreness, and quickly healing fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the poison from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and eure "Dew Poison." Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes an stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore throat. 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